11 Shel Silverstein Quotes for You to Enjoy

Shel Silverstein

American Poet

Born: Sep 25, 1930

Died: May 10, 1999

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Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life. Shel Silverstein

Life Freedom Important Important Things Shoes Most Comfortable Leave Things Two

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. Shel Silverstein

War Will Hug Rug Everyone Giggles Rather Kisses Wins Instead HUGS Rolls Tug Where Play

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough! Shel Silverstein

You Tough Thinking Enough Hill Track Just Rough

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it. Shel Silverstein

You About Only Never Never Explain Talking Itself Explain Muddle Speaks

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. Shel Silverstein

You People Reading Meeting Spent East India Could Exchanging Instead Ideas Around Years Going Africa Wanted Anyway Far Roosevelt Far East Europe Travelling Wasted Four Imagine

I'm free to leave... go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don't be dependent on anyone else - man, woman, child, or dog. Shel Silverstein

I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it. Shel Silverstein

You Nothing Way Tell Stay Know Friends Forever Really

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you. Shel Silverstein

You People Fly Sit Believe Corn Beef Hand Expect Want Anything Sandwich Then Your Wash Socks

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh. Shel Silverstein

People Thought Military Laugh Cartoons Pretty Silly About Take Poke Make Were Lot Anybody Anything Meant

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